The full process takes me <5:00 in the morning. I don't know how long a semiautomatic machine would take, but I'm lucky enough to have 5:00 minutes to spare for

The full process takes me <5:00 in the morning. I don't know how long a semiautomatic machine would take, but I'm lucky enough to have 5:00 minutes to spare for a generally meditative ritual each morning. I don't have the heated brew head, but my process involves preheating the brew head while I'm "packing the bowl" (so to speak), so there is no "down time". I brought out the stopwatch this morning, the general breakdown is as follows: 0:00: Fill up kettle, put on stove 0:15: pour beans into commandante (measure by acquired knowledge of how 15g looks in the device coupled with bag-specific fine tuning) 0:30: Begin grinding 1:15: Grinding complete, begin to disassemble and clean equipment, restore plunger position to top of brew chamber 2:00: Cleaning complete, pack bowl while waiting for boil to finish (main bottleneck/downtime). 3:00: Boil complete, pour water into upturned brew chamber placed on granite slab for watertight seal 3:30: Preheat complete, transfer chamber onto device, begin main pour/press procedure. 4:15: Espresso complete. As you can see the main bottleneck is the water boiling. If I can get the exact right amount for the preheat and brew it will cut the time down a good bit, but if I undershoot it takes considerably longer to bring new water up to boil. An electric kettle (220v??) would help too, but I want a setup that works off-grid. The nice thing with this setup is that it's so simple to clean that there's no time at all dedicated to long-term cleaning or maintenance. With the daily washdown which is already integrated into my workflow while waiting for the boil, I keep the machine in pristine condition. Compare that to larger equipment which needs occasional breakdown/descalding/etc. procedures.